Thrilled DEI is toast!

We do some communication work for NIH (e.g., social media, newsletters) that is currently on hold.

I'm a contractor working with foreign aid. Effective immediately, the bulk of our work is on hold until further notice. Found out this morning, and expecting to hear that furloughed until 90 days EO review but then expecting to be fired because little faith that this project will pass the scrutiny.

It's a mixed bag. Of course I need the job. But I also know from inside how much money IMO is needlessly overspent.

We are losing a ton of remote contractors and are really frustrated about going back to the days of dealing with the low rent DC contractors scraping the barrel to find people in the commuting area willing to take low salaries. Our contractors mainly deal with analytics, scanning physical documents, and logistics.

And yes, I'll take good qualified people from the govt, give them a pay raise and charge it all back to the govt contract (and add profit) so they can have the same person supplying the work they were doing in the first place.

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Anonymous wrote:We have several contractors with bloated salaries and low efficiency and they are on the chopping block. This is DoD.

This is not my experience in DoD at ALL. We are generally pretty insulated from immediate ups and downs of any administration's whims. This is the same. We do mirror in office policies, so something might trickle down to us with this. But it will NOT be immediate. It will be slow on purpose, because if people are leaving the gov't we'll look to scoop some of them up.

This. We have contracts that clearly state if work if done on site or off site and if employees are remote. Remote usually saves the govt $$ so does on site (at govt site). But then the govt has to provide space and it infrastructure. Most of my dod contestant are for off site meaning at contractor site and we provide the office, networks etc. But we also make things and run data on our own servers that the govt couldn't replicate without spending a lot of $$ in a short time.
EOs don't supersede a written and signed contract. And if programs are cancelled "for convenience" by the govt, there are clauses which allow the contractor to claw back a lot of $ that would have been provided to do the work.

100% in SCIF so no impact o us.

Not at all. None of us WFH so there has been zero impact.

Anonymous wrote:We have several contractors with bloated salaries and low efficiency and they are on the chopping block. This is DoD.

This is not my experience in DoD at ALL. We are generally pretty insulated from immediate ups and downs of any administration's whims. This is the same. We do mirror in office policies, so something might trickle down to us with this. But it will NOT be immediate. It will be slow on purpose, because if people are leaving the gov't we'll look to scoop some of them up.

I don't know if you mean contractors in terms of external organizations or whether you mean internal contractors who are staff. On the latter, I will say that our agency has moved in the direction of having more and more contract staff and less direct hires. The contract staff are expensive and generally not as qualified. If they would like to get rid of them - great!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have several contractors with bloated salaries and low efficiency and they are on the chopping block. This is DoD.

I thought you worked at NIH.

I do but different than PP.

Anonymous wrote:We have several contractors with bloated salaries and low efficiency and they are on the chopping block. This is DoD.

I thought you worked at NIH.

We have several contractors with bloated salaries and low efficiency and they are on the chopping block. This is DoD.

Bump - I'd be interested in these answers too

Obviously a lot of threads on the fed workforce (for good reason) but curious how gov contractors are faring so far. How are your companies handling implications of the EOs — have you seen any contracts or grants cut yet?